{"id":88381,"date":"2026-11-13T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88381"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:42:12","slug":"no-hand-holding-or-raised-hands-during-the-our-father-prayer-at-mass-archdiocese-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/no-hand-holding-or-raised-hands-during-the-our-father-prayer-at-mass-archdiocese-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hand Holding Or Raised Hands During The Our Father Prayer At Mass, Archdiocese Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, has asked laypeople to refrain from holding hands or raising their hands during the Our Father prayer at Masses in the archdiocese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">While the Catholic liturgy is fairly uniform across Catholic parishes, some Mass attendees raise their hands in the \u201corans\u201d posture of prayer or hold hands during the Our Father prayer, while others don\u2019t. The Archdiocese of Portland through an official instruction has asked laypeople to refrain from doing either. \u201cOver the last few decades there has been some confusion as to whether the lay faithful should extend or raise their hands (and even holding hands with others) when the Lord\u2019s Prayer is prayed during Mass, as the priest does,\u201d stated the announcement in the Archdiocese of Portland\u2019s November 2026 issue of its Divine Worship Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, has asked laypeople to refrain from holding hands or raising their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88385,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88381\/revisions\/88385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}